Public Health Disease Prevention Intern

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The PHBP Unit is currently seeking volunteer interns who are pursuing a undergraduate or graduate degree in Public Health particularly with concentrations in Public Health Nursing, Community Health, Health Education or Epidemiology. The internship is unpaid, but could be used for education credit. Training will be provided.

Activities

• Use an electronic disease surveillance system to manage new reports of hepatitis B in pregnant women, and to track and document case management notes for hepatitis B immunization and testing for their infants and other household contacts.
• Contact OB/GYN practices to collect prenatal medical data on hepatitis B patients reported to the health department as pregnant.
• Place phone calls to hepatitis B pregnant and post-partum women to conduct medical interviews, provide health education about hepatitis B and remind the mothers about the vaccination and testing appointments for their newborns and older children.
• Contact pediatric provider offices to provide reminders about the infant due dates for vaccination and testing and to obtain medical records from providers.
• Conduct searches for medical information in regional health information organization (RHIO) databases for disease surveillance and case management purposes.

Prerequisites:

A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, including or supplemented by twelve semester credits in health education, or in health, social or biological sciences; or

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and six months of full-time satisfactory experience in a health promotion or disease intervention/prevention program, performing one or more of the following: interviewing, conducting field investigations, assessing health risks, making referrals, or collecting and analyzing epidemiological data; or
2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and four years of full-time satisfactory experience as described in "2" above; or
3. Education and/or experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. Undergraduate college credit can be substituted for experience on the basis of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of full-time experience. However, all candidates must have a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent, and either twelve semester credits as described in "1" above or six months of experience as described in "2" above.